skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lead Product Engineering at OrderAhead
At OrderAhead, we’re rethinking the way the world shops at brick-and-mortar businesses. We value design, focus and simplicity. We iterate quickly and ship often. And we believe in empowering consumers and merchants through the convenience of high-quality software.

As a product engineer, you will tackle a wide variety of problems. You will architect, implement and deploy your projects from end to end. As a result, we look for talented engineers who can move up and down the stack quickly, working all levels of code from database interaction and core business logic up through HTML/CSS/Javascript. The ideal candidate is an ambitious self-starter who shares our passion for creating beautiful and meaningful products. iOS experience preferred.

What we offer is ownership, growth potential and the opportunity to make a real impact. In addition, we’re a group of close friends that you’ll have a ton of fun hanging out with.

More about OrderAhead:

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You must be local to the Bay Area or be willing to relocate quickly.

Email us at jobs@orderaheadapp.com
Literally, a veritable niche of actual specificity.
If someone was sending me DMs that would mean I had followed them.

If I somehow had three IP addresses to general locations, I would wonder who I had followed in those general locations.

If in one of those locations a friend of mine lived, I might wonder and then check my email to see what IP addresses had been captured there.
Which is absolutely fine ― at least then those people wouldn't be able to hypocritically claim free speech as one of their country's positive attributes when trying to distinguish themselves from "barbaric" countries like China or those in the Middle East while also suppressing free speech when it fits their "multicultural" agenda.

Moreover, the UK would then get a lot of shit overseas, particularly in America, for being an example of how European-style socialism leads to a lack of civil liberties, and that might put pressure on the British to actually codify that right.
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Depends on what the "IT Genius" tried.

For example, IP addresses (even internal unroutable ones) are frequently passed along in email headers. If he was able to find an IP and an email sent by his friend in the same timeframe, that would be a good correlation. I've done this on occasion when someone's external IP has dynamically changed but they sent email, in order to fix VPN connections.

Pinning it on the son is the stretch here.
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It's a good thing Microsoft has patented non-rounded rectangles. They should get right after Apple as soon as they can find any on Apple's site.
Yeah -- I was even more OCD with my tactical vest, pants, etc. Basically every square inch of MOLLE had a purpose, and needed to work when standing or when prone on the floor (during incoming), etc. And you do weird things like put a first aid kit with standard layout in a standard location (to be used on YOU if injured), and I had my real medical kit in a different position (which I'd use on anyone else, or on myself).

My car's trunk is similarly organized with a trauma bag, fire extinguisher, crowbar, etc.
Was the OpenStack foundation election gamed?
Did some minor analysis and breakdown of stats available on the recent and first ever foundation membership election of user selected Board of Directors seats. Not happy with the results.
Another interesting tidbit is that the US does very poorly when considering 'freedom of speech' with respect to the media. In the Press Freedom Index, the US comes in at #47 of 179, as compared to the UK's #28 (and the raw scores aren't in the same neighbourhood either). It's just a reminder that speech in the US isn't as free as it's said to be.

http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html
With the active help of his "IT genius" friend, the deduction of a neighbor's address isn't very far-fetched.

Often the IP will clearly identify a regionally-specific ISP and even a particular community. And once recognized as someone local, there were probably just a few suspects from vague hunches about who seems a little angry/fidgety/pranky.

Maybe the neighbor leaves their wifi open: borrow access one day, see what the public IP is.

Maybe the neighbor corresponds via email with Traynor or the 'genius': check email 'received-from' headers; include an HTML email image bug; tempt the target to click a unique link.
That is one conclusion (and I would agree true for some users), however I think Zuckerberg sees this as a more complex than just slow apps. Here is a quote from the article:

"And the thing that I think a lot of people don't think about is that there are actually more people in the world using Facebook on mobile Web, right, so not using the apps on iOS or Android, but actually just going to a browser on a phone. There are more people doing that than the iPhone and all of Android phones combined, right? So it's actually a pretty diverse ecosystem."
Some cars already have that built in. It's a per manufacturer thing though.
When do you open source a 3D printer?
A quick set of thoughts about the recent move by Makerbot to close source their recently released Replicator 2 3D printer.
It depends on your work environment. If your boss asks for 40 billable hours a week and you have a family to keep you busy in off hours then there's not much time for writing docs or contributing modules.
Wait... am I supposed to assume all blog posts are false? Certainly an interesting way to live. I'll start with your comment.
Just to add a bit more fuel to the fire, while a reasonable skepticism should always be well, reasonable, I think it takes a lot of chutzpah to so directly out and out call this fake given the sparsity of the argument as it is.

Compare this to skepticism over ElevatorGate.

FWIW, here's a woman at skepchick expressing doubt that Leo even exists: http://skepchick.org/2012/10/leo-traynor-anti-semitism-and-t...
On "what to do with service on acquisition", I've been thinking about that a lot -- basically as we set it up, we've got a plan to maintain service even if we moved on to something else, by charging enough to make the service self-sustaining from the start.

I'd make an acquisition contingent upon allowing the product to live on (either with the acquirer or an independent entity or a non profit); this doesn't impair our enterprise value much, since the product doesn't compete with any potential acquirer. I'm looking at putting this into contracts with customers. (a product could still eventually get sunset, but I think a year or two is a reasonable period post-EOL announcement, not a month...)
> Repeat after me: WHITE PEOPLE DO NOT SUFFER FROM RACISM

That's a load of crap. I am considered "white" (you need papers and blood quote to prove you're Native American despite what some senatorial candidate thinks), and I have gotten a ton of crap because I grew up on a reservation not of my father's tribe. And no, I did not get to flee to the mystically accepting fellow white folk in the the town next door (I lived on the rez after all and am related).

The brain is an amazing pattern matching machine. You missed matching the whole pattern.
Actually the only people I'd "FY" to are landlords in Palo Alto (if I had $100mm, I'd buy a house in PA for $3-5mm, even if it wasn't a great financial decision...), and gas stations (Tesla Model S...)
Downvotes? Ha! It's true, though, isn't it? I mean, is a Java developer qualified to critique a reasonably large C++ application? Not really, no. You can try, but there are idioms, pitfalls, and such that you just won't pick up on.

So why do we tolerate the same behavior when it comes to men's experiences vs. women's experiences? This isn't all that complicated. You didn't live the last N years of your life as a woman. You can try to reason about it. Maybe you'll come close. But you just don't have the experience.
There was an article on front page just few days ago regarding banner blindness for scrolling carousel style content. HN gives conflicting views.
That statistic could be because children are much more frequently studied as victims of cyber bullying, and that their peers are also children.

I say the friend because more often than not, the relationship includes some triggering factor for the cyber bullying. Where is the sense of power for the teenager when the victim is a hemisphere away, and not in class?
This is the main reason I chucked my Drupal 'cuffs in 2008, no longer taking on new Drupal projects and helping my clients move over to other Drupal service providers: It was very, very difficult to scale up my business because bringing on extra developers, and having consistent local/dev/staging/production environments was at least an order of magnitude more difficult that it would be with other tools.

In Drupal 6, the only way to reproduce an environment was with a massive install profile for the project, and the average Drupal developer was entirely clueless to matters of testing and version control when compared to the average Django/Rails/CakePHP developer. This made for many painful projects and unhappy clients, usually beginning 6-8 weeks into the project when the issues of database drift became inevitable.

And like you said, everything lives in the database. So the chances that some production issue (or new issue only seen in dev) was caused by an errant user action in the Drupal UI was pretty high, and this made debugging a nightmare -- where is my issue really coming from?

I'd just about forgotten about my Drupal days of yore, and between the "click monkey" analogy and the "clear the cache" nostalgia, the author sure conjured up some bad memories!
This is a brilliant exponentiation. Could you explain in similar terms how quick hashes like MurmurHash and CityHash work?
"Ellison paid lip service to the value of cloud computing's utility model, which lets IT execs buy computing power just like they buy electrical power, but the Oracle Private Cloud is more like paying the electric company to put a power plant in your office building."

I think this shows a gross misunderstanding in tech media's idea of the "cloud". The idea of the private cloud is setting up your own distributed cluster with shared memory easily. They make it sound like Oracle's private cloud is self-defeating and complicated with the power plant analogy.

Maybe some companies can't store their private data in "the cloud", but would like the flexibility of adding nodes to their own private "cloud" as easily as they could with Amazon cloud for example.
A decade ago when I studied usability, we were taught Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions, and how we should design a UI that is appropriate for users in specific locations.

I would like to understand what process followed when designing the new site that will be accessed by anyone in the world. Did the project team do User Experience testing? If there was testing, did this happen at local office level?
What would you recommend an experienced developer coming into Drupal do to land in group A?
The author had me up till:

> Going back to the matter at hand, Steve then proceeds to do what white men always can’t help but do: “educate.”

Not all white men can't help but educate. There's a line between banter and offense. I would never want anyone in my team to be offended and I tend to try to (mostly) stay on the side of caution on the banter front mainly because my job is to make it as easy as possible for people to do theirs. I did feel from the photos that the author's attire was not appropriate for the offices we work in (but might be fine for his), but find comparisons to Run DMC much more inappropriate. For one, if I was a member of Run DMC I would greatly protest against the style of the author's dress sense, but then again I grew up in the 80s, the decade that fashion forgot.

At the end of the article, it's clear there are no winners, only losers. It's good that the author is no longer there because he doesn't have to deal with idiots like that. Life's too short to have to put up with any form of crap in an environment that doesn't suit you, regardless of the reasons. It's also good for the idiots working there that he's no longer there either because frankly they lack the maturity in their environment (even if they have it individually) to cope with having someone that doesn't fit their world view there. Racism in the workplace is unacceptable but it does happen[1]. The trick is to deal with it sensitively and objectively while making sure that people understand that they're wrong, why they're wrong and what they need to do to be right. If they screw up with it repeatedly, then maybe they need to find a new job.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM
Slate article about Kixeye's brogrammer culture: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/08/...
Even with the IP address from the header, which geolocation service did he use to pinpoint the street address?

If it's like most ISPs, this IP address is subject to change every couple of days, so this IP location service would need to be updated with personal addresses, across the globe, that often.
I think telling people that just their password was wrong was a bad move. The author argues that this is not a security risk because the "username reminder form already tells you if a username exists". However, this simply displays a further security issue. I don't have the link handy, but there was just a (really good) article the other day here on Hacker News about why you should not reveal whether the email address is necessarily associated with a username or password in these kinds of forms (always just give the same generic "we will send it if it exists" message).
upvote!!!!
> Wouldn't you want to be able to find all cell phones that were in proximity to a significant number of the burglaries at the time that they happened?

This kind of thing does happen and I don't have a problem with it. It's how the FBI caught the "Scarecrow Bandits" in Texas. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html

There was also a recent case where the FBI was looking for a person distributing child pornography on Youtube. They found that 3 of his IP addresses originated at hotels. So they cross-referenced the hotel guest registries and identified the one guy who had been registered at all the hotels at the relevant times.

This seems like a perfectly legitimate method of investigating a crime and I don't think anyone is arguing that police ought to be prevented from doing what they did with the Scarecrow Bandits.

The problem is that the Government wants to be able to target a person and track their movements via a cellphone based only on a showing of reasonable grounds to believe that the location data is relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation. This essentially allows the government to conduct fishing expeditions.
Agreed. Learning how to drill to effectively unlimited geothermal power reservoirs can't be a bad thing.
Interesting concept and nice site. But, built in 24 hours? If you did actually accomplish that, props.
> A black coworker is singled out by another (non-black) coworker with "watch out for that guy, he’s trouble, he talks a lot of shit"

You got this one backwards. It's another black coworker warning the author that "Steve" talks a lot of shit.

Yeah, everything else there is pretty awful, and Steve should have been fired for it.

I kind of wondered why he mentioned that he was going to to talk to HR, but then didn't. It seems like the appropriate response it to talk to Steve's manager, then HR, then take legal action if the first two were not fruitful.
I assume they chose a 727 because it's not very useful these days and is therefore available for cheap. It's a decent airplane, but I believe it proved prohibitively expensive to make it meet noise regulations that are getting more common around big airports, and so they're relatively rarely used these days.
the author just sat there and took it

Quote:

"I take a very deep breath through my nose. I tell him, rather I clarify for him that many things said by him and other people in the office has been racist, sexist, homophobic, transpho-

“Whoa whoa whoa, those comments you’re hearing aren’t racist; they’re jokes!”"

The guy is gay, so it makes sense that he reacted passive aggressively.

That doesn't make any sense. Being interested in same-sex sex has nothing to do with passive aggression.

Females tend to behave this way, which is why a lot of workplace related sexist shit still goes on.

Women speaking up about workplace sexism is often a job-ender, if not a career-ender. That's not submissiveness, it's business acumen.

Be clear. Be loud.

That's not a complete solution. It's step 2. Step 1 is to educate enough men and white people that we can actually have a culture where clear, loud pronouncements of wrongdoing are actually heard and taken seriously, without career repercussions.

And I'm assuming when you say "Be clear. Be loud." you're speaking to white men, right? Because women and people of color already have to do way too much education in their spare time, and it's the privileged who have the extra time and energy to pick up the slack and speak out about these issues, right?
quora is not relevant except to its investors and maybe a fraction of its active users.
What about buying and selling options?
This doesn't make sense to me either, though I haven't touched Drupal for at least 6 years.

In my experience, Drupal is ideal for cheap clients who want a zillion features but don't have the budget. You can deliver more functionality in Drupal than anything else, that is absolutely true.

For high-end clients who are willing to pay for impeccable UX and solid problem-solving, I can rarely recommend Drupal because it starts with a raft of assumptions that tend to lead to subtle compromises in the UX but would require an inordinate amount of effort to fix.

I ditched Drupal for Rails specifically because I hate being in the position where I have to explain why a seemingly simple change would require far more work than logically makes sense (to be fair, this is an occupational hazard of programming, but with Drupal it happens to an obscene degree). Going to Rails felt like targetting a higher class of client.

Meanwhile Rails developers seem like some of the most sought after programmers today. Where is this elite Drupal employment world that the OA speaks of?
Sorry, I meant the security of relying on the services in general, not of exposing that someone has an account with you. Obviously, that's a serious security consideration, and each service should weigh the costs and the benefits.

In this case, it seems like they are already exposing it with the account checker, so making this change didn't open up any new vulnerabilities.
Considering his racist remarks against white people he found a perfect place to work at - a full place of racists?!
I have a "dynamic" IP address from Cox, it has changed three times in six years.
If there is one coincidence to make you question the authenticity of the author - nah.

If there are several coincidences, then this leads to a pattern of behavior to which a motive can be questioned.
HN is a diverse group of people from all over the world, with all kinds of opinions. There are very few issues where HN is in consensus.
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It's very important to not tarnish the movement with the actions of a few. It's frustrating to be dismissed for your race when trying to help things, but it's only a vocal few that do this. I hung out on an anti-racism board for a little while and learned a few things there about racism and also about activists. There were the horrid vocally abusive ones, who were given free reign on the board, free to spout their abuse of whites (the board moderator was white and allowed this out of a sense of 'recompense for past sins'), but most of those identifying as non-whites were normal humans trying to discuss things rather than spray venom. The thing is, if you let the vocal nasty people taint your opinion of those following the movement, you're falling into a trap again. It's a bit like tarnishing all baptists with the actions of the Westboro church.

The thing to remember is that the author is not promoting a manifesto or calling to action, he's venting. He's frustrated, and he's not creating a culture of oppression with the occasional use of 'dumbwhite' - some commentors in this thread seem to think that this private use of the word in an anonymised article makes it as bad as creating a culture of bigotry in the workplace. Racism isn't a binary on/off.
Anecdotal, but did you request the static IP? I can't imagine Cox handing those out like Pez.
To be clear, I'm not dismissing his argument, I was simply answering the question "WHO CARES".

There's a time to vent and a time to make a case. I personally feel that the author would have been better served making a case (EEOC) instead of venting in a public method. Especially since the identities of the author and the company in question are very easy to track down. This could have long term negative consequences for the author, and may make his claim harder if he does decided to take his former employer to court.

YMMV.
Our goal is to help people find and select what they really want to spend time reading. We feel that a summary is the perfect step between a title and the actual content and that it actually incentivizes people to read the whole thing once they're hooked by the summary.

The people that won't read the full article after reading the summary probably would have just bounced or skimmed the article extremely quickly.

You're right that there are probably certain types of contents that lend themselves to be summarized better than others. We're still figuring this one out by observing what our users and experimenting with what we summarize.
FTC Chairman: Advertisers Backing Away from ‘Do Not Track’ Pledge
Yep.

Epic EMR work is in extremely high demand right now - but it's completely worthless work if you're trying to transfer into a different line of work.
Yep.

Epic EMR work is in extremely high demand right now - but it's completely worthless experience for any other line of work.
I find it interesting that the contributors work for semiconductor companies. I would've thought that something like this would be more likely to emerge from a team with a mathematics/CS/academic background more so than hardware. Perhaps these algorithms can (and will) be going strait into some new hardware cryptography IP cores?
And you just put a nail in your elitist class warmonger column for insinuating that a college education is needed for someone to be expected to be not racist.

This is getting silly.
When I applied, I didn't even think about the fact that I'm female. This article has me super-excited.

I'm surprised it's so low. My guess is that:

1) As geebee said, groups of coding girlfriends are rare (I'm the only one of my girlfriends who's into tech stuff)

2) Women don't like peacocking as much as men, so they suppress a lot of great ideas

3) If women have babies in their twenties, that becomes their first priority

Otherwise, I'm psyched to be a female applicant at this moment of opportunity.
The Nissan advertising before the crash video was funny.